8 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN NIGHT LlFE-Cont'd assortment of squawks, growls, and half- valve sighs he gets out of his horn, arrives with a quintet on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Music from nine-thirty. CARLYLE HOTEL, Madison Ave. at 76th St. (744- 1600)- The Café Carlyle, a small, well- upholstered room decorated with quaint Mar- cel Vertès murals (a nude at her easel, a leap- ing poodle), is a place where time pretty much stands still BOBBY SHORT, who has come here for twenty years to sing from his collec- tion of Porter and Coward and Ellington, begins a two-month residence on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Sets at ten and twelve Tuesdays through Saturdays. EAGLE TAVERN, 355 W. 14th St., at Ninth Ave. (924-0275)-Bluegrass is played in this fron- tier bar, on the western edge of town, out where the great potholed boulevards turn to cobblestones, and Weehawken, the gateway to the Jersey interior, shimmers in the dis- tance. The music begins at nine on Fridays PAUL ADKrNS & THE BORDERLINE BAND-a quartet led by a guitarist and singer who has worked in J. D. Crowe's New South group-will be here on Oct. 28. FAT TUESDAY'S, 190 Third Ave., at 17th St. (533- 7902)- There's not a lot of elbow- or head- room in this downstairs jazz club, but the musicians sometimes make you forget all about it MARK MURPHY, a veteran jazz singer and hepca t, performs Tuesday through Sun- day, Oct. 25-30; SUSANNAH MC CORKLE, a singer who can croon a Berlin song and soft-pedal a Jobim samba as well as rattle off a boppish Oscar Brown, Jr., number, has the floor start- ing Tuesday, Nov. 1. On Mondays, guitarist- inventor LES PAUL, the Thomas Edison of reverb, leads a trio Music from eight. Dining. FORTUNE GARDEN PAVILION, 209 E 49th St. (753- 0101)-A satisfying combination of Chinese food and homegrown music. Rubberneckers may see the moon wheeling by the green- house roof on its nightly tour of romantic Manhattan JAKI BYARD, a pianist and former Mingus hand who likes to jump without warning from style to style (he can go from pulsating stride to blistering free jazz in a wink) and to set a classic blues alongside a pop weeper such as "Ode to Billie Joe," will be around, with bassist RALPH HAMPERIAN. Tues- day through Sunday, Oct. 25-30. Pianist GEORGE CABLES and bassist RAY DRUMMOND move in on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Music from nine-thir- ty Tuesdays through Saturdays, and from seven on Sundays. J s, 2581 Broadway, at 97th St. (666-3600)- An Upper West Side music room, one flight up from the hurly-burly. Jazz people are on the premises nightly except Sundays, when a jukebox stocked with sixties rock and soul lights up. FRANK UNDERWOOD. who writes satir- ical Frishbergian songs (a couple of which Su- sannah McCorkle has recorded), performs some of them on Tuesday, Oct. 25; jazz singer CARLA WHITE and a quintet come in on Friday, Oct. 28 Music from eight Mondays through Thursdays, and from nine Fridays and Saturdays. Dining. KNICKERBOCKER. 33 University PI., at 9th St. (228-8490)-A busy corner bar and restau- rant with a piano at the center of things. JUNIOR MANCE works out on it, with his trusty bassist, MARTY RIVERA, at his side, Tuesday through Saturday, Oct. 25-29. HARRY CONNICK, JR.. a young New Orleans-born pianist and singer, flies all by himself on Sundays and Mondays. Music from nine-thirty. KNITTING FACTORY. 47 E Houston St., near Mul- berry St. (219-3055)-A second-floor retreat that features avant-garde jazz, advanced and un advanced rock, medicinal teas, medicinal beer, and space to think your thoughts in. The schedule: Monday, Oct. 24, BIG DIPPER, a Boston-based pop band; Friday through Sun- day, Oct. 28-30, pianist MAL WALDRON and alto saxophonist MARION BROWN. with Russian pian- ist Sergei Kuriokhin and saxophonist JOHN ZORN on Friday and Saturday; and Monday, Oct. 31, the Chills, a New Zealand rock band. Music after nine LONE STAR CAFÉ, 61 Fifth Ave., at 13th St. (242- 1664)- This hangout for homesick Texans, French tourists, and local yokels brags that it's "the biggest and best honky-tonk north of S-M-T-W-T-F-S 1 24 25 26 27 \ 28 1 29 30 31 1 2 Abilene" Big it ain't, but it does feature some genuine honky-tonk music, a souvenir stand, and TV monitors (which permit you to wa tch the action onstage in case your view of it is obscured by a cowboy or a structural element). JOE (KING) CARRASCO, who plays Tex- Mex party music that sounds cheerfu] even when he's stomping on gringo imperialists, will be around on Tuesday, Oct. 25, and so will Memphis piano thumper ROSCO GORQON. KATIE WEBSTER, an R. & B. pianist who was based for many years in Lake Charles, Loui- siana (where she did session work for Slim Harpo, Clifton Chenier, and others), and later toured with Otis Redding's band, per- forms on Friday, Oct. 28. ZACHARY RICHARD'S Cajun band visits on Monday, Oct. 31. Music after nine Hot vittles LONE STAR CAFÉ ROADHOUSE. 240 W. 52nd St (245-2950)- The midtown branch of the aforementioned establishment. The façade is a Silver Eagle bus, the kind your itinerant musician cat tools around in. The inside fea- tures some stuff you probably wouldn't find in a county-line roadhouse-like a waIlful of de-luxe Gibson guitars-and some you might expect to find: beer, neon beer signs, and men wearing dozer caps Most of the music-rock, country, blues-is provided by local talent On Monday, Oct 31, JERRY JEFF WALKER and ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL perform in a benefit for ospital Audiences Music after nine. Din- Ing. MICHAEL'S PUB, 211 E. 55th St. (758-2272)-A mid-Manhattan pub for well-heeled gents and their high-heeled foxes MAUREEN MC GOVERN. a pop-jazz singer who has a swell set of pipes and technique to burn, performs Tuesdays through Saturdays at nine and eleven. Dining Closed Sundays MIKELL'S, 760 Columbus Ave., at 97th St. (864- 8832)-A spiffy uptown bar and restaurant, wi th signed photographs of some swinging non-musicians on the walls (Reggie Jackson smiling shyly, Dave Winfield tuning up in the cage) and some heavy hitters on the bandstand. MC COY TYNER, a pianist who gives you a lot of bang for your buck, will be here Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28-29. Music from about ten until two. RITZ, 119 E. 11th St. (254-2800)-Fifty years ago, people practiced the jitterbug and the foxtrot in this ballroom; today's patrons lis- ten mainly to rock, which issues from speakers the size of mobile homes, and some- times engage in a combination of exercise and intimacy known as slam dancing. SONIC YOUTH. a rackety, ironic, droning, arty, echt Lower Manhattan rock band, will be here on Friday, Oct. 28; SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY, a blue-eyed soul man from the Jersey shore, sings with his ASBURY JUKES on Saturday, Oct. 29, and Mon- day, Oct. 31 Shows begin at nine Sundays through Thursdays, and at eleven Fridays and Saturdays SOUNDS OF BRAZIL. 204 Varick St., at W. Houston St (243-4940)-A big, cheerful room, paint- ed a light tropical blue, where you can pick 'em up and set 'em down to sounds from Brazil, Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. Ample seating for the contemplative. YELLOW- MAN, a Jamaican sInger who is the star of just about all of his reggae ditties ("all of de girls, dey say, 'Yellow, you're bold' "), performs on Monday, Oct. 24; GATO BARBIERI, a hard-blow- ing, crowd-pleasing tenor saxophonist, directs a band Tuesday through Thursday, Oct. 25- 27; the AMBITIOUS LOVERS, a downtown Manhat- tan operation (origina] Lounge Lizard ARTO LINDSAY and electronics specialist PETER SCHERER are the principals) that can go from a jangly New Y or k funk tune to a wispy bossa-nova- ish number without blinking, hold forth on Friday, Oct. 28. Music from nine Sundays through Thursdays and from ten on Fridays and Saturdays. Dining SPEAKEASY, 107 Macdougal St. (598-9670)-A central Village lounge for folkies and others who practice low-decibel (but not necessarily low-voltage) music. RICK DANKO, whose un- couth, lonesome voice was just right for the nostalgic laments Robbie Robertson wrote for the Band, has the floor on Saturday, Oct 29. Shows nightly from eight-thirty. Dining. SWEET BASIL, 88 Seventh Ave. S., at Bleecker St. (242-1785)-Pianist CEDAR WALTON. tenor sax- ophonist HAROLD LAND, bassist RON CARTER. and drummer MICKEY ROKER-a foursome steeped in the mysteries of hard bop and later develop- ments-will be in this Village temple of jazz (pressed-tin ceiling, grainy b. & w. photos of your favorite demigods, knee-to-knee seating) Tuesday through Sunday, Oct. 25-30. JIM HkLL, who turns out some of the quietest and most beautiful guitar solos around, brings in a quartet on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Shows from ten. Dining. VILLAGE GATE, 160 Bleecker St. (475-5120)-In the gym-size downstairs room, salsa bands play for enthusiastic crowds on Mondays after nine-thirty. On Oct. 24, two masters of Latin rhythms, TITO PUENTE and MARIO BAUZA, will be here with their orchestras; Miami flutist NESTOR TORRES is the guest soloist. . . . f]J One flight up, in the airy space known as the Terrace Bar, guitarist JOE BECK and bassist JAY LEONHART pick and pluck Tuesdays through Sundays from ten GAIL WYNTERS, a Kentucky-born jazz singer who has a gospel- belter's voice, performs on Mondays, Oct 24 and 31, from ten. VILLAGE VANGUARD, 178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St. (255-403 7)-People from all over the world descend the stairs to this ancient jazz club; many of them later emerge from it in an excited condition. Guitarist KENNY BURRELL leads a foursome Tuesday through Sunday, Oct. 25-30; starting Tuesday, Nov. 1, TEDDY EDWARDS. a bop-era tenor saxophonist who left Detroit for Los Angeles forty years ago and rarely comes back this way, works with the New York rhythm section of RICHARD WYANDS (piano), LISLE ATKINSON (bass), and AL HAREWOOD (drums). Mondays are prime time for MEL LEWIS'S big band. Music from ten WEST END. 2911 Broadway, at 113th St. (666- 8750)-The big room in this student rest stop (Columbia U is across the street) has a non-institutiona] cafeteria, a bar that can seat a marching band, and a jukebox. The smaller room has tables, booths, a couple of hanging plants, and live jazz. BIG NICK NICHOLAS, a big-toned late-swing tenor saxo- phonist, leads a quartet Wednesday through Sunday, Oct. 26-30 On Mondays, comedians stand up and fall down. Shows from nine. ZINNO, 126 W 13th St. (924-5182)-If you like pictures of cows, there's a good one here, by the British painter Malcolm Morley, of some Holsteins adrift in a Turneresque landscape. There's also jazz, which flows peaceably from a passageway between the front-room bar .and the back-room restaurant. RUBY BRAFF, the only horn player to work here (he speaks soft- ly on his cornet), will be around with a trio every night but Sunday, Oct. 30, when gui- tarist GENE BERTONCINI and bassist MICHAEL MOORE hold forth. Music weeknights from eight, and Sundays from seven. JALZ/ ROCK / PERSONAL APPEARANCES / PERFORMANCE ART, ETC. NEW EDITION-With Al B. Sure! and Bobby Brown. (Madison Square Garden. 563-8300. Thursday, Oct 27, at 7:30) JOHN KELLy-La Mama, 74A E. 4th St. 475-